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Day 28. To Rabanal del Camino
This burg is so small even Google Earth points to a different town about 10 km away. Nice walk in some rain, wind and cooler weather. Just a bit of rain, reinforcing my opinion that weather forecasts in this region are at best a guess. Great little hotel; 17th century (1600's) pilgrim hospital now renovated and well done.
The terrain is getting more wild and hilly with less farming now. Country looks poorer and for the past few days we see many, many partially built and now abandoned houses and apartment blocks. The banks and many people are taking big losses. Really quite sad to see.
Today is the end of our 4th week on the road. Hard to believe. Still the odd aches but they seem to move around each day so are not worries. My new shoes are great other than the left one has started eating socks, like the right one on the other pair. Hope the tape works and there are enough socks left. Nowhere left on the trail to buy anything my size.
So a few comments on dining in Espanol..... The better places open at 8:30 at the earliest and often 9:00 pm. We have done this once and it is way too late to eat a full meal and walk early the next morning. The earliest meals are available at 7:00 and we are often the first in. These places do a la carte but their main offering is 'menu peregrino' which is a starter, main course and postre (dessert) with bread and either water or vino ( guess which one we pick?) for around 10 Euros ($14). Always quite good and always tastes identical to that of the previous 15 evenings.
Lynn's pet peeves; the restaurants are brightly lit with no mood lighting to be had. I think because the Spanish dine as families, not as couples. Also they play Muzak which is all American music. Quite odd. And tv shows many US shows dubbed in Spanish. I hear this is a huge industry. Too bad they don't realize how wonderful their own culture is & that we would love to listen to beautiful Spanish guitar music or flaminco.
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